"Your heart is beating faster." A pleasant voice, sounding from behind Donk, was like the wind blowing silver bells and the ship pushing the waves.

Donk didn't look back to know who it was, and there was only one woman on the silver boat, Emily. Without looking back, he said, "I just got seasick, and my heart is going to beat faster." ”

"You don't tell the truth, how can you get seasick when you are a pirate." Emily snorted and leaned closer, standing side by side with Donk in the bow of the ship. Her hair dances lightly with the sea breeze, and the strands are very beautiful.

"Not necessarily, there are vegetarians among the meat sellers, there are bald people among the barbers, and whoever says pirates can't get seasick." Donk joked.

"Even if there's a seasick pirate, it's not you."

"Okay. It's true, and my heart is beating for another reason. ”

"It's because you're close to the Fountain of Death that your heart beats faster."

"No, that's not the reason."

"What's the reason for that?"

Donk turned his head, looked condescendingly at Emily, who was a head shorter than him, and said softly, "It's because you're close to me that my heart beats faster." ”

"Hmph, this sentence is even more untrustworthy than your seasickness, like this kind of lie to deceive the little girl, don't tell me in the future, otherwise, be careful that I go to your wife to complain." Emily gave Donk a blank look and refocused her gaze on the ever-changing sea. The wonder of black swirls quickly magnified in her jewel-like eyes.

"Okay, if you and I can come out of the Fountain of Death alive, I won't lie in front of you again." Tang Ke smiled lightly. He said those unnutritious sweet words to Emily, not to hook up with Emily, but more out of nature. As long as he sees a beautiful woman, he can't help but become very frivolous.

"Well, I hope this trip goes well, and we can all return safely from the fountain of death." Emily's face suddenly turned solemn. The pupils staring at the Fountain of Death contracted slightly.

"Looking at your appearance, you should still be a little worried, in that case, why do you have to slap your swollen face and become fat, and come to this troubled water." Donk's smile faded and he asked casually.

"I'm not like you, full of lies. What I said in the conference hall before is true, the reason why I joined this team is just to help the motherland win the fountain of death. ”

"Tsk, that's a great feeling."

"You're not a soldier. So you won't understand, you don't have that sense of mission in you. ”

"I really don't understand."

"Actually, you can think about it from another angle, if there is a hostile force attacking your pirate group, and you find a treasure that can hopefully win the game, but there is a great risk in obtaining this treasure. With you, the pirate leader, unable to get this treasure, will anyone of your loyal men take the risk to stand up for you? Emily asked.

Tang Ke thought for a moment, if this was the case, there would definitely be many people in the dragon pirate group rushing to take the risk. If you replace the Dragons Pirates with the Greenland Empire. You'll be able to figure out why Emily stepped forward. He nodded and said, "Okay." I probably understand your sense of purpose. ”

Emily fell silent, staring at the sea for a long time, counting the fleeting waves on the sea, and suddenly spoke again. sighed: "Although I am a soldier, I actually hate war in my heart. I have so many men who have died in the war one after another, that my men are all strange faces now. Every time I return home. I can see many families of soldiers who have gone to sea in the harbor, and these people are waiting for the soldiers to return, but often all they wait for is heavy bad news. ”

"War is indeed a cruel thing. Someone loses, someone gains, someone laughs, someone grieves, it's inevitable. Donk admitted.

"Sometimes I naively wonder if the five empires and the rest of the world at war could shake hands and make peace, and sign a treaty that will never go to war and end all wars in the world. Soldiers can no longer fight bloodily, they can return to their hometowns to reunite with their families, take off their blood-stained uniforms, and begin to work in more peaceful and secure work. Wouldn't that be nice for everyone? ”

"It's impossible."

"I knew it couldn't be, so I said it was just a naïve idea."

"A contract cannot silence all nations, and to end the war, it must be made more brutal until all sides are defeated and only one king is left to win. In a world that is torn apart, war is doomed to break out whenever there is a situation in which one loses the other's strengths. Only when the whole world is unified and becomes a whole country can we achieve long-term peace and stability. War may be a bad thing for the current period, but in the long run, war has an irreplaceable positive significance for the world and is vigorously promoting the development of civilization. Just like slash-and-burn, many things can only be born in destruction, and war brings destruction, but it also brings new life. Tang Ke said eloquently.

"Although your words are high-sounding, they are actually covering up the ugliness of war." Emily gave Donk another blank look. She always disagrees with Donk's opinion, but she always talks to Donk along the way, which makes her feel a little self-defeating.

"The beauty and ugliness of the world do not lie in the things themselves, but in people's aesthetic vision, and what is ugly in your eyes may be gorgeous and dazzling in my eyes." Donk said with a smile.

"Then tell me what this ugly thing looks like in my eyes." Emily said, gesturing ahead.

Donk looked down the white jade-like finger and saw that Emily was pointing to the approaching black vortex ahead. He shrugged and said, "In my eyes, this thing has a dangerous charm, not glamorous, but at least not ugly." ”

"Okay. It seems that there is a difference between the two of us. Emily shrugged her shoulders as well, then turned around and beckoned to Tonk, "Once the ship enters the black maelstrom, it will be swept in, and no one can say what will happen then." Let's hurry up and get inside the cabin. ”

Donk nodded, one last glance at the black vortex. Then she followed Emily up the ramp and into the cabin.

The bow of the Shield had already stepped into the range of the black vortex, tilting slightly downward, and the bottom of the ship was pulled by a rotating force, and the speed of the ship involuntarily increased.

……

One of the largest back gardens in the Pirate City Lord's Castle.

The lord of the city, Deku, who is in control of the pirate city and a huge potential force, is feeding his little pet, his pet is very special, and the things he feeds are also special.

His pet is a troll, a three-story humanoid monster with an extremely low IQ and not even as smart as a dog or cat. The head is full of only eating, drinking, and sleeping. The trolls are infinitely powerful and ferocious, but they are not comparable to the intelligent races that have mastered various mysterious powers.

Under the slaughter of the major races for many years, the trolls are on the verge of extinction, and the number of trolls in the world is definitely not more than ten fingers, and the rarity is probably about the same as that of dragons.

So, raising a troll is really a very majestic thing.

The feed he feeds on the trolls is the big living people, the big living people who are jumping around. He doesn't feed small pets alive every day, which is a little too perverted. Only when some people provoke him. He would take the man and feed it to the trolls as punishment as an example. Whenever he does it after. There will be fewer people in the world who dare to provoke him.

When one day no one in the world dares to make him angry, he will probably be able to live in peace. He's old, really old, the last time of his life. It should have been a comfortable life.

It's a pity that his identity is special, and as the city lord of Pirate City, he is destined to live a comfortable life.

The man who angered the lord of the castle was thrown before the trolls. Just one look at the troll made him so frightened that his legs went limp, he collapsed to the ground, and even peed his pants. In fact, it is not a shame to be scared by a troll to pee his pants, and almost all of the people who received the same treatment as him in the past have peed their pants.

The unfortunate man pleaded with tears, one moment for the lord of the city, the other for the trolls, but received no response. He is dead today, unless God comes and saves him.

The troll dragged the sturdy chains of several "spells" on his body, cast a shadow that obscured the sky and the sun, and stretched out his huge palm, grabbing the unlucky man in the palm of his hand. Its fingers were almost as thick as the unlucky man's waist, and he could crush the unlucky one with a single pinch, but he didn't do that, because he wouldn't have anything to eat. It brought the unlucky man to his mouth, opened his insatiable mouth, and spewed out a stench ten times worse than the stinky gutter, and fainted the unlucky man. This may be a good thing for the unlucky ones, at least to suffer a little less.

Deku watched the troll eat absentmindedly, not getting much pleasure out of it, and there weren't many things in the world that could bring pleasure to an old man in his twilight.

When the troll was halfway through eating, a flash of figure landed behind Deku, kneeling on one knee. He was dressed in a neat and sleek suit, which was the uniform attire of the messengers in the city. He bowed his head and reported respectfully, "Lord of the City, the Goldenbeard Pirate Regiment has sent an emissary, and he wants to see you. ”

Hearing this, Deku's heart moved, and he aroused a trace of interest, it was more interesting to meet the envoys of the Goldbeard Pirate Regiment than to watch the trolls eat people. He turned his head and said, "Take him to the second parlor, I want to see him alone." ”

"Yes." The messenger came and went in a hurry, and as soon as the words landed, the man flew away and disappeared.

Deku walked to the back door of the castle step by step with his hands behind his back, and thought to himself, "Goldbeard is the proudest man in the world, and he is so ambitious that even I, the lord of the city, don't take it seriously. He won't find me if he doesn't have anything, and once he finds me, it will definitely be an earth-shattering event. ”

There are many parlors in the Pirate Shipowner's Castle, which are divided into levels according to the decoration, treatment, etc., with the No. 1 parlor being the highest, the No. 2 parlor being screened, and so on. If Goldbeard himself was there, Deku would definitely choose to receive him in the No. 1 meeting room, but it was only a mere messenger, so there was no need to make it so grand.

Rao is like this, and the second meeting room is also magnificent enough, comparable to the palace halls of the five empires. Everything in this room is carefully selected, and any teacup can be sold for a lot of money.

In this well-sized living room, a long table was set up.

When Deku entered the house, the messenger sent by Goldbeard was already seated at one end of the long table.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the messenger immediately stood up and greeted Deku respectfully. He was a gentleman with glasses and a pleasant look. It's hard to connect him to the Goldenbeard Pirates. He wasn't even wearing anything related to the Goldbeard Pirates, and he couldn't tell that he was from the Goldenbeard Pirates at all.

Deku nodded casually, counting as a response, and asked the messenger to sit back in his place, while he himself sat on the other side. The long table was long, completely separating the two. Deku liked the sense of distance, and as the lord of the city, he was already very far from most people in the world.

"What is the purpose of the Goldenbeard sending you?" He asked straight to the point.

"The Supreme City Lord, with my humble status to the dust, is not worthy to answer your question. In my opinion. Let Goldbeard-sama himself talk to you. I'm here today just to bridge the gap between the two of you. I don't have anything else to do, and I don't have anything to do. The messenger said respectfully, and after saying that, he took out a rectangular mirror from his body, the mirror surface was smooth and shiny, and the back was wrapped in a silver frame, which was decorated with simple textured reliefs. He tapped a few rhythmically on the mirror, and in the originally empty mirror, there were ripples in circles. It's like a lake where someone has thrown a stone.

Deku recognized at a glance what this mirror was, this mirror was not an ordinary mirror, it was an extremely rare treasure, and the name was "Shadow Mirror".

This type of mirror usually consists of two as a pair. Scenes and sounds reflected in one mirror can be transmitted to the other. The screw can only transmit sound, and this treasure mirror can transmit both sound and image. So it's a grade higher than the nut nut. Even in the treasure troves of those great empires, there may not be such rare treasures.

The teleportation mirror in the messenger's hand underwent various changes, first ripples. Various light spots emerge and finally a shallow to deep image emerges. In the mirror, the tall and mighty image of the golden beard is reflected, and he is still the same as before, with a bright golden beard and bright golden hair, looking like a golden lion.

The image of Goldbeard appeared in this mirror, and in the mirror in front of Goldbeard, there must also be an image of Deku.

"It's good that you're not dead, bad old man." The golden-bearded urn said angrily. His voice came out through the telescope, shaking the living room and spilling the tea on the table.

"Before you say that someone else is old, you should weigh how old you are." Deku snorted.

"Indeed, like you, I am also a bad old man who can't be older, but this world is in the hands of us old men."

"You're not in control of the world, you're just a pirate group."

"I don't want to master the whole world, I just want to master the sea of this world."

"You can't control the sea, the sea doesn't belong to anyone, it was so before, and it will always be. Those who try to master the sea will be buried by the sea. ”

"I haven't been able to master the sea yet, that's true, but it's not impossible. There have been people in this world who have mastered the sea, you know that. ”

"You mean the first Pirate King Roger?"

"Yes, it's Roger, at the height of his power, his pirate regiment can run wild on the seas, and no one is his opponent. In that period, the sea belonged to him. ”

"I know you've always wanted to be a second Roger, but ......" Deku smiled wryly and shook his head, "Time has passed, the world has completely changed, and this period is completely different from the period when Roger was active, the strong people in the world have withered a lot, and the major forces are evenly matched and contain each other. It seems to me that no one will be able to regain the throne of the pirate king. ”

"I'm really far from this goal, let alone defeating the pirate governors of several other seas, even in the Sea of Dreams, it is difficult for the Goldenbeard Pirate Regiment to dominate. But there is always a solution, and it is now in front of me, waiting for me to make it happen. Goldbeard's eyes opened slightly, bursting with excitement.

"What do you mean?" Deku asked curiously.

"I'll tell you straight. I want to resurrect Roger and bring him, the mightiest pirate in history, back to earth, and restore him to his former glory. When he is resurrected, I can accept whether he helps me or I help him. I can't tolerate anyone above my head, but he's an exception. Goldbeard finally explained the purpose of finding Deku today.

Once the word resurrection is mentioned, it is natural to think of the recent hot Fountain of Death, and Deku suddenly says, "You want to snatch the Fountain of Death?" ”

"Yes, I want to rob the Fountain of Death."

"Since you want to grab it, why do you want to find me?"

"I want your help, so that you can help me deal with the people of the two Imperial Alliances. With my strength alone, I am alone, and I am not completely sure. ”

"I'm afraid I'm going to give you a disappointed answer, I've never left the Pirate City, you know that. And I don't feel like I've got that good with you, so there's really no reason to work for you. Deku snorted coldly.

"No, you're not working for me, you're going to do it for all the pirates of the sea!" The golden beard said loudly. (To be continued......)